• Shifting perspectives in polar research : global lessons on the barriers and drivers for securing academic careers in natural sciences 

  Figuerola, Blanca; Valiente, Nicolas; Barbosa, Andres; Brasier, Madeleine J.; Colominas-Ciuro, Roger; Convey, Peter; Liggett, Daniela; Fernandez-Martinez, Miguel Angel; Gonzalez, Sergi; Griffiths, Huw J.; Jawak, Shridhar D.; Merican, Faradina; Noll, Daly; Prudencio, Janire; Quaglio, Fernanda; Pertierra, Luis R. (Frontiers Media, 2021-11-11)

  The polar regions provide valuable insights into the functioning of the Earth’s regulating systems. Conducting field research in such harsh and remote environments requires strong international cooperation, extended ...
• The question of the nature of God from the African place 

  Ogbonnaya, L. Uchenna (Calabar School of Philosophy (CSP), 2022-03)

  What is the constituent nature of God? Most scholars project the idea that God is an absolute, pure spirit devoid of matter. In this paper, I engage this position from the African philosophical place. First, I contend ...
• Risk aversion and Bitcoin returns in extreme quantiles 

  Bouri, Elie; Gupta, Rangan; Lau, Chi keung marco; Roubaud, David (Economics Bulletin, 2021-09-17)

  We study whether level of risk aversion can be used to predict Bitcoin returns using copulas and quantile-based models. We find evidence of predictability when the market return is at extreme quantiles. Further analyses ...
• Climate risks and the realized volatility oil and gas prices : results of an out-of-sample forecasting experiment 

  Rangan, Gupta; Pierdzioch, Christian (MDPI, 2021-12-02)

  We extend the widely-studied Heterogeneous Autoregressive Realized Volatility (HAR-RV) model to examine the out-of-sample forecasting value of climate-risk factors for the realized volatility of movements of the prices ...
• Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces 

  Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Eldridge, David J.; Liu, Yu-Rong; Sokoya, Blessing; Wang, Jun-Tao; Hu, Hang-Wei; He, Ji-Zheng; Bastida, Felipe; Moreno, José L.; Bamigboye, Adebola R.; Blanco-Pastor, José L.; Cano-Díaz, Concha; Illán, Javier G.; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; Siebe, Christina; Trivedi, Pankaj; Zaady, Eli; Verma, Jay Prakash; Wang, Ling; Wang, Jianyong; Grebenc, Tine; Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F.; Nahberger, Tina U.; Teixido, Alberto L.; Zhou, Xin-Quan; Berdugo, Miguel; Duran, Jorge; Rodríguez, Alexandra; Zhou, Xiaobing; Alfaro, Fernando; Abades, Sebastian; Plaza, Cesar; Singh, Brajesh K.; Tedersoo, Leho; Fierer, Noah (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-07)

  The structure and function of the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces remain largely undetermined. We conducted a global field survey in urban greenspaces and neighboring natural ecosystems across 56 cities from ...
• IEEE Xplore digital library indexes the Transactions of the SAIEE, 1909 to date 

  Sinha, Saurabh; Lacquet, Beatrys; Maharaj, Bodhaswar Tikanath Jugpershad (SAIEE, 2021-12)

  The SAIEE Africa Research Journal (incorporating the SAIEE Transactions) has been publishing peer-reviewed articles in electrical engineering and associated disciplines since 1909. Over the years, the journal has developed ...
• The use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs by COVID-19 patients – in a nutshell 

  Flepisi, Brian Thabile; Schellack, Natalie (Medpharm Publications, 2021-06)

  Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for a large scale of morbidities and mortalities worldwide, posing a significant threat to global health. ...
• Enoxaparin 

  Padayachee, N.; Schoeman, N.; Schellack, Natalie (Medpharm Publications, 2021-05)

  The development of low-molecular and ultra-low-molecular weight heparins has changed anticoagulation treatment options. Enoxaparin is a low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH), which works on Factor Xa and is indicated for ...
• A 2021 update : approach to asthma management in adults 

  Schellack, Natalie; Truter, A.; Ntuli, P.N.; Mokwele, N.; Mogale, K.; Esterhuizen, A. (Medpharm Publications, 2021-08)

  Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that causes hyper-responsiveness of the bronchial tree, with reversible airflow obstruction. The condition places a significant burden on our healthcare system. Chronic asthma can ...
• The prevalence of vascular injury utilising the lateral parapatellar approach for malignant distal femoral tumour resections: a case series 

  Van der Watt, Nicolaas P.; Koch, Odette; Le Roux, Theo L.B.; Meijer, Jannes G.; McLoughlin, Heather (Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2021-08)

  BACKGROUND: Distal femoral tumour resections are mostly performed through a medial or anteromedial approach. The lateral parapatellar approach is an alternative method. This case series assessed vascular complications ...
• Patient-reported outcomes following plantar incisions in foot surgery 

  Alexander, Alwich N.; Saragas, Nikiforos P.; Ferrao, Paulo N.F. (MedPharm Publications, 2021-11)

  BACKGROUND: Plantar incisions may be used in a variety of surgical procedures. Despite numerous studies reporting on procedures which use plantar incisions and thus inadvertently demonstrating good results with plantar ...
• β-cell-specific deletion of PFKFB3 restores cell fitness competition and physiological replication under diabetogenic stress 

  Min, Jie; Ma, Feiyang; Seyran, Berfin; Pellegrini, Matteo; Greeff, O.B.W. (Oppel Bernhardt Wilhelm); Moncada, Salvador; Tudzarova, Slavica (Nature Research, 2022-03-22)

  HIF1α and PFKFB3 play a critical role in the survival of damaged β-cells in type–2 diabetes while rendering β-cells non-responsive to glucose stimulation. To discriminate the role of PFKFB3 from HIF1α in vivo, we generated ...
• Continuous production of fumaric acid with immobilised Rhizopus oryzae : the role of pH and urea addition 

  Swart, Reuben Marc; Ronoh, Dominic Kibet; Brink, Hendrik Gideon; Nicol, Willie (MDPI, 2022-01-22)

  Please read abstract in the article.
• The space-exposed Kombucha microbial community member Komagataeibacter oboediens showed only minor changes in its genome after reactivation on earth 

  De Carvalho, Daniel Santana; Trovatti Uetanabaro, Ana Paula; Kato, Rodrigo Bentes; Aburjaile, Flavia Figueira; Jaiswal, Arun Kumar; Profeta, Rodrigo; De Oliveira Carvalho, Rodrigo Dias; Tiwar, Sandeep; Cybelle Pinto Gomide, Anne; Almeida Costa, Eduardo; Kukharenko, Olga; Orlovska, Iryna; Podolich, Olga; Reva, Oleg N.; Ramos, Pablo Ivan P.; De Carvalho Azevedo, Vasco Ariston; Brenig, Bertram; Andrade, Bruno Silva; De Vera, Jean-Pierre P.; Kozyrovska, Natalia O.; Barh, Debmalya; Goes-Neto, Aristoteles (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-03-11)

  Komagataeibacter is the dominant taxon and cellulose-producing bacteria in the Kombucha Microbial Community (KMC). This is the first study to isolate the K. oboediens genome from a reactivated space-exposed KMC sample ...
• Shotgun metagenomics of deep forest soil layers show evidence of altered microbial genetic potential for biogeochemical cycling 

  Frey, Beat; Varliero, Gilda; Qi, Weihong; Stierli, Beat; Walthert, Lorenz; Brunner, Ivano (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-03-01)

  Soil microorganisms such as Bacteria and Archaea play important roles in the biogeochemical cycling of soil nutrients, because they act as decomposers or are mutualistic or antagonistic symbionts, thereby influencing ...
• Incidence of Sindbis virus in hospitalized patients with acute fevers of unknown cause in South Africa, 2019–2020 

  Meno, Kgothatso Debra; Yah, Clarence S.; Mendes, Adriano; Venter, Marietjie (Frontiers Media SA, 2022-02-07)

  BACKGROUND : Sindbis virus (SINV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that is widely distributed worldwide. Little is known about the febrile and neurological disease burden due to SINV in South Africa. PATIENTS AND METHODS ...
• Medical students' and trainees' country-by-gender profiles : Hofstede's cultural dimensions across sixteen diverse countries 

  Monrouxe, Lynn V.; Chandratilake, Madawa; Chen, Julie; Chhabra, Shakuntala; Zheng, Lingbing; Costa, Patrício S.; Lee, Young-Mee; Karnieli-Miller, Orit; Nishigori, Hiroshi; Ogden, Kathryn; Pawlikowska, Teresa; Riquelme, Arnoldo; Sethi, Ahsan; Soemantri, Diantha; Wearn, Andy; Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Yusoff, Muhamad Saiful Bahri; Yau, Sze-Yuen (Frontiers Media SA, 2022-02-08)

  PURPOSE : The global mobility of medical student and trainee populations has drawn researchers’ attention to consider internationalization in medical education. Recently, researchers have focused on cultural diversity, ...
• Editorial: functional imaging of inflammation and infection 

  Lawal, Ismaheel Opeyemi; Gheysens, Olivier; Sathekge, Mike Machaba; Glaudemans, Andor W.J.M. (Frontiers Media SA, 2022-05-12)

  No abstract available.
• Phenomic analysis of chronic granulomatous disease reveals more severe integumentary infections in X-Linked compared with autosomal recessive chronic granulomatous disease 

  Chiu, Timothy Lok-Hin; Leung, Daniel; Chan, Koon-Wing; Yeung, Hok Man; Wong, Chung-Yin; Mao, Huawei; He, Jianxin; Vignesh, Pandiarajan; Liang, Weiling; Liew, Woei Kang; Jiang, Li-Ping; Chen, Tong-Xin; Chen, Xiang-Yuan; Tao, Yin-Bo; Xu, Yong-Bin; Yu, Hsin-Hui; Terblanche, Alta J.; Lung, David Christopher; Li, Cheng-Rong; Chen, Jing; Tian, Man; Eley, Brian; Yang, Xingtian; Yang, Jing; Chiang, Wen Chin; Lee, Bee Wah; Suri, Deepti; Rawat, Amit; Gupta, Anju; Singh, Surjit; Wong, Wilfred Hing Sang; Chua, Gilbert T.; Duque, Jaime Sou Da Rosa; Cheong, Kai-Ning; Chong, Patrick Chun-Yin; Ho, Marco Hok-Kung; Lee, Tsz-Leung; Yang, Wanling; Lee, Pamela P.; Lau, Yu Lung (Frontiers Media SA, 2022-01-24)

  BACKGROUND : Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an inborn error of immunity (IEI), characterised by recurrent bacterial and fungal infections. It is inherited either in an Xlinked (XL) or autosomal recessive (AR) mode. ...
• The diversity decline in wild and managed honey bee populations urges for an integrated conservation approach 

  Panziera, Delphine; Requier, Fabrice; Panuwan Chantawannakul; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Blacquiere, Tjeerd (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-03-03)

  Many parts of the globe experience severe losses and fragmentation of habitats, affecting the self-sustainability of pollinator populations. A number of bee species coexist as wild and managed populations. Using honey ...

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